Omaha daily bee., 1887-03-22
AVENCINC A SISTERS WRONGS
Grant Hart, Of Hastings, Tells How He
Killed DR.. Randall.
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"Thcre goes the boy who kille Doc
Randall" said II Hastings gentleman to
q BEE reporter at the Union Pacific depot
yesterday evening, pointing out young
man who was crossing the platform
toward the waiting room. The reporter
followed into tho room and found him
self facing a young, boyish looking fel.
low, about eighteen years OF age, with
bright keen blue eyes, light black hair
and face as smooth and rosy as that OF
a country school girl. He wore neat
fitting ready.made suit of greyish color
and black slouch hat. OF the SCORE or
more Of young mon who were in the
room at the time he was the last one
whose looks or bearing would indicate
him capable of killing man as
he did DR.. Randall at Hastings on
Saturday. He appeared ill at ease, glanc.
ing nervously about him, and appeared
startled when the reporter addressedlhlm
as "Mr. Hart" He looked as though he
expected to see pair of handouts flashed
upon him at the next moment. When
made aware of the interviewer's identity,
his face assumed a bored only.a.reporter
look common with men of more expert
ence.
1.-The papers," said young Hart, shave
already given all Of the facts" when
asked for particulars concerning his
shooting of DR.. Randall, the man who
had ravished his little eleven-year.old
sister at Hastings.
affair the young man demurred and was
only brought out by the question, "Did
you 20 to the court house with the lnten-
ton of killing Randall?n To this he
quickly replied
mo, SIT. | had no idea of such thing
two seconds before it was DONE
How did 1t happen?"
II stood IN the crowded court 70 ON
listening to the evidence. When my
poor sister. who was too weak to walk,
was helped into the witness chair
and told the story of the
brutal treatment she had received at
Randall's hands my blood fairly boiled.
She testified that she had been drugged
and kept from her boarding house and
subjected to the most fearful treatment.
Judge Fleming had just fixed the old
scoundrel's bail when l felt something
slipped into my hand and my fingers
closed upon revolver. Instantly ! was
seized by an absolutely uncomfortable
raised the pistol, took q hasty but ac-
curate aim and pulled the trigger If it
had been my own mother against whom
l held such feeling as l had that instant
| would have fired Just the same. When
saw Randall fall the thought that had
killed man flashed through my brain
and overcome me entirely. turned
sick at heart don't know what became
of the revolver. Some one took hold of
my arm and pushed me from the court
room. On the stairs two men took me
and led me across the street to Deitz's
lumber yard and kept me
there couple of hours.
then they hurried me to place of con-
cealment. came to Omaha this morn
ing"
"Where are you going now?''
81 don't know. At the suggestion of
friends in Hastings haye seen an able
Omaha attorney and he advises me to go
back to my home, relying on the feeling
there to protect me from prosecution. l
have some relatives in Iowa and / may
go over and see them for a week or two
before decide what I shall do" The
interview was ended suddenly by Hart,
who responded to the call of "all aboard"
from the conductor of the east bound
Kansas CITY train,